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Fantastic Swimmers - Republic Day [mhrk157]

Publication date: 2014-04-01

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Topics: jazz, free jazz, Belarus

Tracks #1, 3, 5, 7 – parts of a song from a Christmas album from the Emmerich children choir.

Tracks #2, 4, 6 - recorded by Fantastic Swimmers in the city Miensk, (Biełarus) during the summer of 2014.

Track #6 is a live soundtrack for Jean Renoir's silent film "Sur un Air de Charleston" (1927). It was recorded 17/07/2014 on the open-air festival of silent films and modern music ‘Kiniemo’ in the Zair Azgur Museum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ap6haM0ds

released 01 April 2015

mahorka.org/release/157

Viktar Siamaška – piano (2, 4, 6), Korg monotron (2), voice (6);
Aleś Siamaška – drums (2, 4);
Fryd Samotny – tenor sax (2, 4, 6), voice (6);
Eryk Arłoŭ-Šymkus – double bass (2, 4, 6), voice (6);
Vasil Pankrataŭ – Korg monotron, gramophone, voice (6);
Ihar Adasik – percussion, voice (6).

Sound operators – A.Siamaška (2, 4), A. Bahdanau (6).
Black-and-white cover photos – Uł.Kułaha.
Color photos – M. Kruhły, H.Hlik.

band contact: vvsiamashka@tut.by